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Seattle, Wa, Us

Leading a 45+ person software and systems engineering organization that develops fully-autonomous delivery drones at Amazon Prime Air in Seattle, WA and Austin, TX. Responsible for the strategic and operational vision including hiring, establishing culture, defining processes, and driving technical solutions. We do the R&D to solve never-been-done-before challenges by designing scalable software systems that fly unmanned aerial vehicles powered by artificial intelligence.We are responsible for the underlying drone avionics and perception frameworks, the core Vehicle Management System, simulation, and integrating and executing the software that enables the drone to fly. This includes systems engineering, regulatory compliance (DO-178C), the framework powering all on-board functions, software integration across the entire drone, software and hardware-in-the-loop simulation as a service, on-drone performance optimization, and technical program management (TPMs).

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Established a new engineering team in Santa Monica, CA including defining, hiring, and mentoring a team of top-tier software and data engineers. Led them to work with product managers and data analysts to solve highly complex personalization challenges. Drove the team to define the architecture, build, and deploy the software across the globe. Designed highly available, service-oriented systems that leverage machine learning and data mining concepts to understand customer behavior to improve the value of Amazon devices and services. Our Devices Central Engagement team used state-of-the-art machine learning and advanced customer segmentation techniques to drive our relentless focus on customer experience. Our newly-created full stack team created a diverse range of products, ranging from large-scale machine learning systems to real-time, low-latency recommendation and ranking systems, building algorithms for understanding customer behavior and generating recommendations content, and as well as building customer-facing UIs. We created and built the programs that drove a direct, measurable impact to our customers, and powered features on our devices used by millions of customers daily.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Built a new supply chain group in Austin including defining, hiring, and mentoring a team of top-tier software and data engineers. Led them to work with research scientists and product managers to solve highly complex supply chain challenges. Drove the team to define the architecture, build, and deploy the software across the globe. Together we designed highly available, service-oriented systems that leveraged machine learning and data mining concepts to predict future availability needs on a massive scale.The Supply Chain Optimization group at Amazon tracks billions of dollars in inventory for the millions of items buyable on Amazon.com, computes accurate delivery expectations for every customer order, and monitors fulfillment network changes to drive delivery updates and optimization in one of the largest supply chains in the world. We own prediction of demand, automation and optimization of the sourcing, buying and placement of all inventory, and the customer experience from a fulfillment promise perspective - how much to buy of what, who from, where to put it and how to get it there, and how to get it to the customer and what to promise them - all while maximizing customer satisfaction and minimizing cost.

New York, Ny, Us

Defined and led architecture and software development. Mentored talented teams of full-stack and specialized software engineers and managers, helping them improve their skill-set and advance their careers. Led recruiting, hiring, performance evaluation, and coaching efforts for internal and external development teams. Fostered a fun, collaborative, and high-performing team environment. Partnered with Product Management and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications. Helped define SDLC and implement Agile/Scrum methodologies to manage sprint cycles and ensure releases ship on time and with the highest quality. Worked closely with cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. Presented issues and risks and their business impact in a timely manner with proposed solutions. Delivered code that addressed end-customer and internal business requirements.

Boston, La, Denver, Paris, London, Düsseldorf, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Oo

Design and develop new internal web-based application for entire organization that consolidates and simplifies all aspects of investment management, tracking, and reporting. Work with in-house development team to build and manage, hands-on coding in ASP.NET, SSRS (BIDS), SQL, jQuery, HTML/CSS, and C#. Conducted user interviews to elicit requirements and understand business domain. Designed system prototype with wireframes and pitched to stakeholders.

Austin, Tx, Us

Maintain and drive organizational adoption of best-practice SDLC methodologies to help move the organization to greater development efficiency and reduce time-to-market. Lead cross-functional product development, quality assurance, and electronic billing teams in all aspects of product design from concept to implementation. Work with product management to ensure product releases meet tight deadlines. Provide technical leadership to the product teams and nurture staff to define and deliver quality results. Conduct daily code reviews as part of continuous integration process and design/implement key product components using Microsoft stack and relevant web technologies. Oversee specifications for all new product features and additions to existing features and support ongoing product reviews. Anticipate quality and reliability issues and drive team to preemptively resolve.

Austin, Tx, Us

Provide hands on technical leadership to develop market leading SaaS product (ASP.NET / C#). Design and write key system components for service oriented architecture and n-tier systems using Microsoft stack and relevant web technologies. Work closely with Product Management to understand business objectives. Hire full time employees and remote contractors; perpetually on the lookout for new talent. Directly manage team of developers and conduct daily scrum meetings. Transition team to agile-based development methodologies and industry best practices. Establish code quality standards and internal team processes.

Austin, Tx, Us

Design next-generation system from ground up using ASP.NET including: multi-tier architecture, design patterns, and UI design principles. Translate requirements into technical design documents. Prepare technical documentation and establish coding standards for developers. Write key components in ASP.NET, C#, LINQ-to-SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and others. Recruit, interview, and hire new developers. Mentor junior developers and perform code reviews to provide guidance and feedback, ensure that standards were met, and identify areas for improvement. Implement formal development and QA process including a continuous integration process with multi-tier deployment. Use static analysis tools to measure code quality and identify areas of improvement

Austin, Tx, Us

Write new system components in ASP.NET, C#, LINQ-to-SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL Classic ASP and others. Add new features such as one that heuristically scans records to detect clients that could be billed at a higher rate to increase revenue. Enhance existing tools such as adding ability to lock timeframes to prevent additional record creation or modification. Improve performance by optimizing SQL query plans, creating indexes, and rewriting code. Add custom AJAX functionality to application using pure JavaScript and Classic ASP. Maintain existing product written with Classic ASP frontend, VB6 business objects, and SQL Server backend.

Develop custom websites using PHP and MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and HTML. Create interactive multimedia presentations using Flash. Create websites with content management system such as DotNetNuke, WordPress, and Joomla. Modify existing websites to add new functionality such as in-place editing. Meet with clients to translate needs into technical requirements and estimate effort required to fulfill. Work closely with team to see projects through to delivery and into maintenance phase

Consulting and contract work focused on web software design and development. Designed and implemented custom solutions for 50+ clients using .NET, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery, and many more.

M.S., Electrical And Computer Engineering, Software Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Mathematics